The death of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in 2015 brought such an outpouring of grief it was more like the death of a rock star than a business executive. Condolences poured in from around the games industry, creating a seemingly impossible act for any new president to follow – especially given the abject failure of the Wii U.

But despite not having Iwata’s background in games development you’d have to say that 68-year-old replacement Tatsumi Kimishima has done a great job. But he was only ever meant to be interim president, and now his role is being take over by the much younger Shuntaro Furukawa.

Furukawa’s background is as a managing executive officer and co-outside director of The Pokémon Company, so he’s not a developer either, but at 46 he’s very young to be the head of a major Japanese company.

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At the same time Nintendo of Europe president Satoru Shibata (the guy you see in the Nintendo Directs) is moving roles to become a global marketing director. It’s unclear who we’ll get to replace him.

The news came as Nintendo announced their latest financial results (warning: PDF), which put the Switch’s lifetime sales at 17.79 million.

As you can see below Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8, and Zelda have been bought by more than half of all Switch owners, which is near unheard of on any other system.

With over 1.5 million copies also sold on Wii U, Breath Of The Wild has become the best-selling Zelda ever, as has Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for the Xeno series. Meanwhile, the Splatoon franchise as a whole has now sold just under 11 million units worldwide.

As a result of all this, profits rose 36.1% from last year to the equivalent of £917.7 million, as net sales shot up by 115.8% to £6.94 billion.

Nintendo is now forecasting 20 million Switch sales by this time next year, which would put its lifetime title at a little under 40 million.

Whether the new president will herald any major new change in direction for the company remains to be seen, but given how the Switch is doing at the moment you’d imagine they’d just want to keep steering in the same direction for now.

Extra details always emerge in dribs and drabs after Nintendo financial results are announced, as Nintendo talks to investors and press comments are translated, but this is how the Switch’s future is described in the main report:

Looking ahead, we plan to leverage this momentum to reach an even broader range of consumers and expand the installed base of the hardware. Specifically, we released Nintendo Labo in April as an offering of a new way to play, and then we are slated to release Mario Tennis Aces in June, as well as the latest entry from the popular series, Super Smash Bros. (temp.) within the year. We expect to release several hit titles from other software publishers as well.

Then in September, we will begin offering the Nintendo Switch Online paid service to expand the online functionality of Nintendo Switch. Our goal is to take full advantage of the platform by continuously introducing compelling new software while further increasing sales of popular titles that are already in the market.